Title: I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark Author: Debbie Levey Illustrator: Elizabeth Baddeley Genre: Picture book, nonfiction, biography Age Range: 4-8 Grade Level: PreK-3 Lexile Level: 710L Main lesson(s): Ruth Bader Ginsburg never let anything stop her from making her mark: not her heritage, not her gender, and certainly not the law. Ginsburg fought against social injustice by becoming a lawyer, something uncommon for a girl at the time. One day, she was asked by then-President Bill Clinton to be a Supreme Court Justice—the first Jewish woman on the nation’s highest court. Ginsburg persistently dissented against court rulings that she did not agree with, but that never got in the way of her positive working relationships with other Supreme Court Justices. MLA 8 Citation: Levey, Debbie. I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Children, 2016.
Author: Jessie Sima Genre: Picture book, fantasy Age Range: 4-8 Grade Level: PreK-3 Lexile Measure: AD590L
MLA 8 CITATION: Sima, Jessie. Not Quite Narwhal. Simon & Schuster, 2017.
POSSIBLE LEARNING ACTIVITY:
Grade: 3 Standards:
NGSS.K-LS1-1: Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.
ESIFCS.1.3-5: Connects ideas to previous knowledge.
Essential Question Set #1:
Have you ever felt a little bit different? How?
Is it a good thing? Why?
Do you belong to more than one friend group?
Is it a good thing? Why?
Essential Question Set #2:
Why are the narwhals and unicorns having a party?
Why is it a beach party, specifically?
Do narwhals need water to survive?
Do land animals need water survive?
Do air animals need water to survive?
Do all animals need water to survive?
Assumptions:
Students have already completed a unit in science class that addresses standard NGSS.K-LS1-1.
Learning Objectives:
(A) Students will contemplate how two different kinds of animals can coexist.
(S) Students will depict a scene that shows how water connects ocean and land/air animals.
(K) Students will realize that all animals need water to survive.
Learning Outcome:
Students will draw a scene in a realistic setting where water and land/air animals come together, depicting how all animals need water to survive.
Procedure:
Students will listen to the teacher read Not Quite Narwhal by Jessie Sima, examine the last page of the book, and contemplate why the narwhals and unicorns meet on the beach. They will then draw a scene in which an ocean animal of their choice and a land/air animal of their choice celebrate friendship together in a realistic setting that includes water. Students will share their illustrations with one another and answer the question: Why do the the animals meet on the beach? Students draw on prior knowledge from their science class and express that all animals need water to survive. The teacher will host a discussion about the narwhals and unicorns about how the two animals get along. Students will be asked: Can different animals get along? Can different people get along?
Title: The Skin You Live In Author: Michael Tyler Illustrator: David Lee Csicsko Genre: Picture book Age Range: 4-8 Grade Level: PreK-3 Lexile Level: Not available at this time Main lesson(s): There are many different colors of skin, which makes us all unique; but, we all have skin, so it makes us all the same, too. Difference is a good thing because it makes us interesting.
MLA 8 CITATION: Tyler, Michael. The Skin You Live In. Chicago Children’s Museum, 2005.
Title: I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark
